法兰西斯·拉尔森：梦寐以求的海岸:五位寻找世界的女人 Undreamed Shores Frances Larson

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback Maps; integrated b&w images

Publisher:Granta Books

Imprint:Granta Books

ISBN:9781783783342

Published:3 Mar 2022

Weight:248g

Dimensions:131 x 197 x 38 (mm)

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书籍简介

在20世纪的头几十年里，有五位女性来到牛津大学，攻读新设立的人类学硕士学位。尽管她们的境遇截然不同，但所有这五个人都打算前往世界上遥远的角落，研究那些与她们自己的生活截然不同的偏远社区。

在西伯利亚的荒原上，在尼罗河和新墨西哥州的部落和村庄里，在复活节岛的叛乱中，以及在新几内亚未知的内陆地区，他们发现了新的自由。他们记录了现在早已被遗忘的习俗，并见证了现在已经消失的世界。通过她们的工作，她们推翻了一些困扰她们性别的有害的神话，并证明妇女也可以成为探险家和科学家。然而，当她们回到英国时，发现等待她们的是损失、疯狂和遗憾。

拉森的这本杰出的传记讲述了她的主人公经历了妇女选举权、两次世界大战以及进入20世纪下半叶的生活，是对一个先锋五人组的启示性描述，他们的贡献长期以来一直没有得到颂扬。

In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma in Anthropology. Though their circumstances differed radically, all five were intent on travelling to the furthest corners of the globe and studying remote communities whose lives were a world away from their own.

In the wastelands of Siberia; in the pueblos and villages of the Nile and New Mexico; in the midst of a rebellion on Easter Island; and in the uncharted interiors of New Guinea, they found new freedoms. They documented customs now long since forgotten, and bore witness to now-vanished worlds. Through their work they overturned some of the most pernicious myths that dogged their gender, and proved that women could be explorers and scientists, too. Yet when they returned to England they found loss, madness, and regret waiting for them.

Following the lives of her subjects through women's suffrage, two world wars and on into the second half of the 20th century, Larson's masterful biography is a revelatory portrait of a pioneering quintet, one whose contribution has for too long been left uncelebrated.

作者简介

Frances Larson博士是达勒姆大学人类学的荣誉研究员。她是《亨利-惠康传》的作者，《物的无限》（OUP，2009），该书由温盖特奖学金提供部分资金。该书出版后获得了相当大的好评，随后入围MJA奖，被选为《星期日泰晤士报》年度图书，以及《新科学家》2009年佳作。她也是《认识事物》（OUP，2007年）的合著者，这是一本关于牛津大学皮特河博物馆历史的书，她在获得博士学位后曾在那里担任研究员。

Dr Frances Larson is an honorary research fellow in anthropology at Durham University. She is the author of a biography of Henry Wellcome, An Infinity of Things (OUP, 2009), which was part-funded by a Wingate Scholarship. The book was published to considerable critical acclaim and was subsequently shortlisted for the MJA Awards and chosen as a Sunday Times Book of The Year, as well as a New Scientist Best Book of 2009. She is also the co-author of Knowing Things (OUP, 2007), a book on the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, where she worked as a researcher after receiving her D.Phil.